Listening to the Lomax Archive : The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s /

Listening to the Lomax Archive : The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s /

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In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the “American Negro” in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes’ f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Jonathan W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lomax, John A. > (John Avery), > 1867-1948.
Lomax, Alan, > 1915-2002.
Folk music.
African Americans > Music.
Folk music > United States > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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